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The Khiamniungan Naga Shawl that has circles of cowrie shells is called Shiehtsap nie. But the exact same shawl without cowrie shells is called Nütsah. The shell was attached as a symbol of feasts of merit which the owner has hosted, depicting the shining stars in the sky during a nightly raid, or the moon and thus female fertility.
A Tangaliya Shawl is a handwoven, GI protected shawl and textile made by the Dangasia community in Gujarat, India. [1] The 700-year-old indigenous craft is native to the Surendranagar district, of Saurashtra-region of the state. Traditional variations like Ramraj, Charmalia, Dhunslu, and Lobdi are woven in village clusters of Dedara, Vastadi ...
Prayer shawls, or shawls in which the crafter meditates or says prayers of their faith while hand knitting with the intent on comforting the recipient, are donated to those experiencing loss or stress. Many knitters today hand knit and donate "chemo caps", soft caps for cancer patients who lose their hair during chemotherapy. Yarn companies ...
Pavlovo Posad shawl. In the beginning of the 19th century, it became fashionable to wear woolen shawls in Russia. The first shawls were produced in the small town Pavlovsky Posad in the Moscow Oblast in the middle of the 19th century. The basic tone of the woolen shawls is usually black while the composition of the motives is a mixture of large ...
Shawl made in Paisley, Scotland, in imitation of Kashmir shawls, c. 1830. Paisley or paisley pattern is an ornamental textile design using the boteh (Persian: بته) or buta, a teardrop-shaped motif with a curved upper end.
The Manila shawl (Spanish: mantón de Manila or mantón de seda) is an embroidered silk shawl derived from the Philippine alampay or scarf (likely from the Luzonian or Tagalog variant). They were popular in the Philippines , Latin America , and Spain during the colonial era .
The Kashmir shawl, the predecessor of the contemporary cashmere shawl, is a type of shawl identified by its distinctive Kashmiri weave and for being made of fine shahtoosh or pashmina wool. Contemporary variants include the pashmina and shahtoosh shawls (often mononymously referred to simply as the pashmina and shahtoosh ).
The term Galway shawl (Irish: seál na Gaillimhe) [1] usually refers to a specific type of heavyweight shawl that was worn by Irish women during the colder seasons. It became popular during the late nineteenth century [ 2 ] and was still being worn up until the 1950s by a few, older Irish women.